National Library of Sweden, A 70a
St Birgitta, Revelationes I-IV
Germany, 15th century, late
paper
viii, 169, vi' leaves
295 × 210 mm
Latin
Leaves torn out, gap in text between chapter 54:4 and 58:5; chapter 61:8 and 62:6. The text ends on f. 165r. On ff. 166r–167r the last part of the text (143:3 to 144:9) has been repeated, but then marked as superfluos.
Secundo folio
dedi diuicias ambiuntSupport
Foliation
Collation
Condition
Script
Textblock
Hand 1
Gothic cursive. (Rubrics written in cursivaAdditions
Textblock
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in brown ink, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red.
Plain initials over 3-6 lines in red.
(Tail), brown ink inside a red frame: ‘Reuelatio birgitte’
Binding
Modern binding. Limp parchment binding. Rebound in 1979. According to the National Library bookbinder's protocol, the previous binding was dated to the 19th century and was deemed unsatisfactory.
Provenance
Origin uncertain, but as witnessed by the inscriptions on f. 1r the manuscript belonged to the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim. It seems to have done so from early on until at least the 18th century (see Buxheimlibrary.org for more information). During the 19th century the manuscript was one of the many manuscripts acquired by the bookdealer Ludwig Rosenthal. Later the manuscript ended up in an antiqurian bookshop in Denmark.
This manuscript originally belonged together with A 70, which contains the second part of the Revelations and the Sermo Angelicus. The manuscripts were kept together in Buxheim, but were later separated until they were reunited at the National Library.
Acquisition
Purchase from Denmark by the National Library in 1922.
- Undhagen (1978), pp. ix–xi.
- Hollman (1956), pp. 13–14.